[News] Silverlight Just Another Microsoft Failure
Roy Schestowitz
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Silverlight Adoption Hampered by Economic Crisis
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| Silverlight's real promise for the business customer -- to improve user
| interfaces for day-to-day applications -- has been thwarted by tightening
| budgets.
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More abandonware from Microsoft? Who was silly enough to put data in Microsoft
formats?
Recent:
NBC dumps Microsoft’s Silverlight after Olympics; goes back to Adobe’s Flash
for NFL
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| "NBC just finished broadcasting the Olympics online with Microsoft's
| Silverlight video technology, but the network and the NFL are turning back to
| Adobe's Flash for live streaming of Sunday Night Football this fall, and
| started tonight with the season opener between the NY Giants and the
| Washington Redskins," Michael Learmonth reports for Silicon Alley Insider.
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http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/18371/
Recent:
Salesforce Says No to Silverlight
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Salesforce-says-No-to-Silverlight/
Related:
Microsoft's Silverlight Promises to Disrupt Linux Web Users
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| Just as it seemed that Linux users (especially 64-bit users) would
| finally be able to enjoy streaming content with a minimum of
| hassle, Microsoft's new Silverlight software promises to throw a
| wrench in the works. Because of sites like Google Video and
| Youtube, Flash video has become a common means of streaming
| multimedia over the Internet.
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1418.html
Microsoft's 'Everywhere' excludes Linux
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| This browser add-on enables rendering of WPF content, but
| "Everywhere" doesn't include Linux.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7794/53/
ECIS Accuses Microsoft of Plotting HTML Hijack
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| An industry coalition that has represented competitors of Microsoft
| in European markets before the European Commission stepped up its
| public relations offensive this morning, this time accusing
| Microsoft of scheming to upset HTML's place in the fabric of
| the Internet with XAML, an XML-based layout lexicon for
| network applications.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/ECIS_Accuses_Microsoft_of_Plotting_HTML_Hijack/1169824569
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| From: Bill Gates
| Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1998 9:44 AM
| To: Bob Muglia (Exchange); Jon DeVaan; Steven Sinofsky
| Cc: Paul Mariz
| Subject: Office rendering
|
| One thing we have got to change is our strategy -- allowing Office
| documents to be rendered very well by OTHER PEOPLES BROWSERS is one of the
| most destructive things we could do to the company.
|
| We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office
| documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
|
| Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has
| to to destroy Windows.
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http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02991.pdf
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Presidental Web server
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This post in this NG would make sense if the NG consisted of Web developers.
This is not a Web developers NG and the post makes no sense here.
Roy Schestowitz
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Silver Lie excludes GNU/Linux users, so its failure is of considerable
relevance to GNU/Linux.
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~~ Best of wishes
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